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<p>It <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/sep/21/pete21-ar-516072/">all happened</a> in Petersburg. The issue of police pursuits has been a hot topic in Central Virginia since a <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/hot-pursuit-dashcam-video-fuels-rugby-road-chase-debate/">harrowing 85mph chase</a> along residential Rugby Road in Charlottesville.</p>
http://www.readthehook.com/66543/fatal-police-chase-results-2-million-verdict#comments_BreakingNewsAccidentspolice pursuitFri, 24 Sep 2010 20:16:18 +0000hawes66543 at http://www.readthehook.comCrash course: State Police chase teen over 100mph in urban areahttp://www.readthehook.com/67118/crash-course-state-police-chase-teen-over-100mph-urban-area
<!&#8211; This will not be inserted &#8211;><!&#8211; This will not be inserted &#8211;><div class="captionLeftLandscape"><a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/news-statepolicespeedtrap.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-35392" title="news-statepolicespeedtrap" src="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/news-statepolicespeedtrap-325x243.jpg" alt="news-statepolicespeedtrap" width="325" height="243" /></a><strong>The State Police </strong><strong>muster unmarked vehicles in pursuit of speeders.<br />
</strong><small>FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER</small></div>
<p>When a BMW allegedly doing 67mph in a 45mph zone passed Trooper W.R. Floyd going northbound on Fifth Street around 3am July 3, the officer turned on his lights to pull over the culprit, the <a href="http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/18-year-old_arrested_in_high-speed_chase_released_on_bail/57961/"><em>Daily Progress </em>reports</a>. But instead of pulling over, the pursued driver reportedly hits the pedal, speeds through a red light, turns right onto two-lane Elliott Avenue and onto Avon Street Extended at speeds at least 100mph, say police, before crashing around Arden Drive.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">With Trooper Floyd still in hot pursuit, the driver flees on foot, so Floyd calls in a canine team and the Albemarle police to search, says Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Remington Scott McConnell, 18, was arrested at his Keswick home and charged with possession of alcohol, felony eluding police, reckless driving, and running a red light. He was released on $3,500 bond, and he will be back in court August 19.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Although the State Police may be best known for patrolling Interstate highways in search of <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/04/july-4-is-for-speed-traps/">dry-pavement speeders</a>, Trooper Floyd had a right to monitor traffic with radar inside the Charlottesville city limits, according to spokesperson Geller.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"The Virginia State Police have statewide authority and can patrol/investigate anywhere in the Commonwealth," Geller says in an email.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Geller declined to provide a mugshot of the arrestee or a dashcam video of the chase, the former because the state police don't have one and the latter because it's part of an investigation, although in the past Geller has noted that it is State Police policy to routinely refuse to release videos even when investigations are closed.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Geller says she doesn't know how fast Trooper Floyd was going. But asked whether a 100-mile-per-hour chase violates any policies for urban streets, Geller says that State Police high-speed chase policy is standard, whether on interstates or within city limits. She says that factors in the decision to pursue include the seriousness of the violator's offense and its relationship to community safety, as well as the time, location and weather, pursuit speed, and other available means of apprehension, such as obtaining an arrest warrant for identified perps.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Last summer, 17-year-old <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/?s=house+scalp+sentence">Tsaye Simpson</a> drove <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/hot-pursuit-dashcam-video-fuels-rugby-road-chase-debate/">85mph down Rugby Road </a>with a Charlottesville officer in pursuit, and crashed into the roof of an occupied house at the end of Rugby. The incident provoked controversy because it took place along a residential street and appeared to violate a City policy.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">In recent years, police pursuits have come under increased scrutiny, particularly because of the deadly toll they take on innocent bystanders, about three a week, according to watchdog group PursuitSafety. In January, the 39-year-old editor of the award-winning film <em>The Fog of War</em> <a href="http://gothamist.com/2010/01/31/editor_killed_by_rx_robbers_had_imm.php">died when struck</a> by a fleeing van in New York. In March, a <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/mar/27/mike27_20100326-221208-ar-6955/">44-year-old Richmond preacher died</a> when hit by a police-pursued vehicle.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Pursuit supporters allege that if police don't chase, criminals will get away and that overall criminal activity may increase.</p>
http://www.readthehook.com/67118/crash-course-state-police-chase-teen-over-100mph-urban-area#comments_BreakingNewsFeaturedCrime/Justicepolice chasepolice pursuitvirginia state policeThu, 08 Jul 2010 08:20:08 +0000lisa67118 at http://www.readthehook.comHouse-scalping: Teen sentenced in notorious, puzzling incidenthttp://www.readthehook.com/67355/house-scalping-teen-sentenced-notorious-puzzling-incident
<!&#8211; This will not be inserted &#8211;><!&#8211; This will not be inserted &#8211;><div class="captionLeftLandscape"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynr_KGkZDCs"></a><a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/news-scalphousechase-i.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-34303" title="news-scalphousechase-i" src="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/news-scalphousechase-i-325x246.jpg" alt="news-scalphousechase-i" width="325" height="246" /></a><strong>Across from Bayly Drive on Rugby Road, a motorist veers away from the pursuit of Simpson. [Click <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynr_KGkZDCs">here</a> for video]</strong><br />
<small>PHOTO BY CHARLOTTESVILLE P.D.<br />
</small></div>
<p>The Charlottesville High School student-athlete arrested last fall for a death-defying, house-scalping car crash has been given time behind bars to flex his remorse muscles after a judge&#8211;- expressing shock that the teen did his most dangerous deed just two months after a conviction for a similar crime&#8211;- ordered Tsaye Simpson to remain inside the juvenile justice system for three and a half years.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"It doesn't look like being found guilty has any effect on him," said an irked Judge Paul Peatross, ordering Simpson to remain locked up until his 21st birthday. If Simpson errs again, Peatross said, the court could impose the suspended portion of the sentence: 22 years in Virginia's adult penal system.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The case follows an incident last August when then 17-year-old Simpson burgled a house in the Johnson Village neighborhood while the owners slept, stole their car, and then led police on an <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/hot-pursuit-dashcam-video-fuels-rugby-road-chase-debate/">85 mile-per-hour chase along Rugby Road</a> that ended in a spectacular&#8211;- and puzzling&#8211;- crash. He was convicted of grand larcency, breaking and entering, eluding arrest, and leaving the scene of an accident.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Appearing Wednesday, June 9 inside Charlottesville Circuit Court, the now 18-year-old Simpson&#8211;- described as a standout player for CHS basketball and football teams&#8211;- shuffled in wearing handcuffs, shackles, and the distinctive gray and black uniform of the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Staring impassively around the room, the lean teen with close-cropped hair and beard was repeatedly asked by the judge as well as his own lawyer if he would make a statement to demonstrate his regret. He declined.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"He said all he has to say," said Alyssa Oakes, after the hearing. "He already wrote an apology letter."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Oakes, who described herself as Simpson's girlfriend&#8211;- though noting that her parents have prevented her from visiting her incarcerated former schoolmate&#8211;- asserts Simpson's innocence.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"They only have one person who said he did it," says Oakes, noting that investigators did not recover any fingerprints, blood, or other physical evidence linking Simpson to the Ford Five Hundred sedan found crumpled and upside down in a backyard near the intersection of Rugby and Barracks Roads.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Surrounded by four other female CHS students and self-avowed Simpson fans, Oakes asserted that Simpson pleaded merely to avoid stiffer punishment from a system "trying to set him up." However, Simpson's own attorney made no such protests. After all, just two months before the burglary and house-scalping of August 7, Simpson already had garnered two juvenile convictions&#8211;- but was free while awaiting sentencing&#8211;- for similar crimes.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"It is unfathomable," defense attorney Christopher Graham told the judge, "what caused him to do these acts&#8211;- breaking into people's homes and taking their cars for what were essentially joy rides."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Prosecutor Elizabeth Killeen took a particularly dim view of Simpson's target on that fateful night: the Highland Avenue home of Nancy and Jack Horn Sr., the latter the founder of Martin Horn, one of the area's largest construction companies and&#8211;- in what Killeen sarcastically called a "remarkable coincidence"&#8211;- the firm that had terminated Simpson's father's employment a year earlier.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">For his part, Horn, though noting that he hasn't yet received any apology, contends that it really may have been a coincidence. But house choice may been the least of Simpson's mistakes. According to Killeen, there were several whoppers:<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">- a come-pick-me-up call he placed moments after the crash to a friend via Horn's cell phone,<br />
- a don't-snitch-on-me text message, again via Horn's phone, sent to the friend moments after a police debriefing, and<br />
- an incriminating phone call (which the friend put on speaker) when police returned to re-interrogate the friend.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Father Earl Simpson, who also has a daughter, testified to maintaining close relationships with his children, who lost their mother at a young age, "to keep them away from corruption."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Killeen seemed sympathetic to the family's plight, and in agreeing not to seek adult prison time, she noted that only two or three juveniles during her 11-year career deserved such punishment. (One was a child rapist; another slit a woman's throat while informing her she'd been cut by a "real killer.")<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">However, Killeen bristled at the way the dad had claimed that his son was falsely accused in the earlier burglaries and how the younger Simpson maintained "stone-cold innocence" until eventually pleading guilty.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The younger Simpson was a "good student and a smart young man," said an official who helped Simpson write apology letters to some of his victims.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"He was exemplary in his thoughtfulness and cooperation," testified the official, <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/Stories/2005/05/06/facetimeMedicineManSaunier.html">David Saunier</a>, coordinator of the Central Virginia Restorative Justice Program. "I believe that he was genuinely sincere."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Saunier wasn't the only powerful force smiling on Simpson. If the latest guilty plea was genuine, Simpson somehow piloted a stolen sedan 85mph&#8211;- slower than the cruising speed of <a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/professional-scientific/scientific-research-development/124815-1.html">some small planes</a>&#8211;- through a garage, a house, a tree, and then remained uninjured as the vehicle came to rest on its roof about 100 yards from and nearly 50 feet below the sidewalk where take-off occurred. (A neighbor <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/driver-missing-after-85mph-car-scalps-house/">expressed surprise</a> that the wreckage revealed no corpse when finally flipped upright by a tow truck.)<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The incident caused over $100,000 in damage to the home of a couple, who were displaced to a hotel and then to an apartment for the nearly four-month course of repairs, and the City of Charlottesville had to rebuild the intersection with a new guardrail and traffic signal to replace infrastructure shorn away by the flying Ford.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Yet police found neither cuts nor bruises while interviewing Simpson within 48 hours of the crash, according to his lawyer. The case remained officially unsolved until mid-October, when Simpson was arrested, putting an end to his senior year at CHS and delaying his plan to enter Piedmont Virginia Community College.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">As part of the sentence, Simpson must remain on good behavior for 25 years, avoid his burglary victims, and pay up to a quarter of his post-release income toward the nearly $16,000 that State Farm insurance spent for the totaled car.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"Obviously, you've got great potential," said Judge Peatross. "I hope you take advantage of this opportunity to get some help and right your life."</p>
http://www.readthehook.com/67355/house-scalping-teen-sentenced-notorious-puzzling-incident#comments_BreakingNewsFeaturedCrime/Justicepolice pursuittsaye simpsonFri, 11 Jun 2010 16:18:44 +0000hawes67355 at http://www.readthehook.comJot pursuit: Graffiti chase may have violated policyhttp://www.readthehook.com/68152/jot-pursuit-graffiti-chase-may-have-violated-policy
<!&#8211; This will not be inserted &#8211;><!&#8211; This will not be inserted &#8211;><div class="captionLeftLandscape"><a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/news-police-car-night1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-30339" title="news-police-car-night-with-Sheriff-Fisher-Suspect-Nargi" src="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/news-police-car-night1-325x243.jpg" alt="news-police-car-night-with-Sheriff-Fisher-Suspect-Nargi" width="325" height="243" /></a><strong>Sheriff Randall Fisher defends the pursuit that landed Nargi.</strong><br />
<small>PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER<br />
</small></div>
<p>Nearly three weeks after a reporter asked the sheriff of Augusta County for any dashboard camera videos of his department's 90-mile-per-hour pursuit of a graffiti suspect, the sheriff says he doesn't have any. But he did eventually produce a procedure manual, one that appears to have been violated with a March 2 pursuit.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"No videos exist in my agency of any pursuit involving [the suspects]," Sheriff Randall Fisher writes in a March 29 email, which comes nearly a month after a reporter began asking questions about <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/04/90mph-chase-for-graffiti-suspect/ ">the March 2 chase</a> that reportedly traversed at least 15 miles, crossed three jurisdictions, blew through eight red lights, and wound up in a residential area.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">For nearly a month, the Sheriff declined to respond to repeated voice-mails asking his opinion of such a potentially risky pursuit for an alleged spray-painter whose identity was already known. Only after a phone call from the Freedom of Information Council in Richmond did Fisher respond.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">He claims that the pursuit conforms to his department's policy manual. As for his failure to respond within five days, as the Freedom of Information Act requires, he didn't address the near daily phone calls and says only that he declines to open emails marked as junk or spam.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">What the sheriff did eventually produce is the mugshot of the captured suspect, an 18-year-old woman named Sahvannah Lorain Nargi of Bridgewater, who&#8211;- along with 24-year-old Christopher Lee Holcomb of Staunton&#8211;- stands accused of vandalizing several downtown Staunton businesses with spray-painted terms including "anarchy" and "chaos."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">More promptly forthcoming was Staunton police spokesperson Lisa Klein, who reveals that a Staunton Police investigator executed a search warrant earlier in the day on March 2 that led to the arrest of Holcomb and the identification of Nargi as a suspect.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">According to Klein, Staunton investigator Christopher Hartless was also present at the gas station on Lee-Jackson Highway in Verona when Nargi was spotted. Unlike the Augusta deputy, however, Hartless didn't pursue, says Klein.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"Our policy," explains Klein, "is only to pursue for violent felonies."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">And that's just the kind of policy one mother wishes every law enforcement body would adopt. <a href="http://www.pursuitsafety.org/index.html">Candy Priano</a> knows all too well about the collateral damage such chases can cause.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Eight years ago, Priano <a href="http://www.kristieslaw.org/">lost her 15-year-old daughter</a> when the honor student was fatally injured in the back of the family minivan when it was struck as they drove to a basketball game. The suspect chased that day in 2002&#8211;- a teen driving her mother's car without permission&#8211;- was released within hours.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"Putting the public at risk for a non-violent crime," says Priano, "is just not worth it."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The issue of police pursuits gained widespread Charlottesville attention last year after the City <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/hot-pursuit-dashcam-video-fuels-rugby-road-chase-debate/">released a dashcam video</a> showing how one of its officers pursued a suspected speeder in August at velocities up to 85mph on residential Rugby Road. The speeder turned out to be a teen burglary suspect, who was apprehended. But not until two months later&#8211;- long after the pursuit caused over $100,000 in damage and nearly claimed several lives, including the occupants of the house unroofed by the fleeing vehicle.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">More recently, a passenger in a vehicle chased for speeding lost his life in Louisa when a deputy's pursuit ended against a tree. The passenger, 22-year-old James J. Wolf Jr., of Powhatan, died March 14.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">For Priano, an even more recent Virginia chase hits remarkably close to home because it was a t-bone crash like the one that killed her daughter. Priano found her sadness compounded by reading online commenters blaming the victim for allegedly failing to be alert in the face of lights and sirens.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"What they don't realize," says Priano, "is that we innocent bystanders don't hear the siren."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Anthony L. Taylor probably didn't. On March 24, the 44-year-old Richmond preacher <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/columnists_news/article/MIKE27_20100326-221208/333294/">lost his life</a> just three blocks from his sanctuary, the United House of Prayer for All People, when a chase initiated at a random traffic check-point crossed jurisdictional lines.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The public doesn't understand that emergency lights and sirens&#8211;- blaring as they do&#8211;- are often hundreds of yards behind the pursued car, Priano says.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">If it were easy to hear sirens, Priano says, then over 4,500 innocent bystanders since 1992 might have spared a violent premature death. She cites a <a href="http://www.alertinternational.com/">recent study</a> that found that only 24 percent of drivers can hear and determine the direction of a speeding police car. And that, she says, is when the siren is coming from directly in front or behind.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"We all know about this when we drive," says Priano. "The siren's right on top of you, and you jump."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">A local firefighter learned this the hard way around 7:30am on Monday, March 29. On his way to a brush fire near Keswick, a tanker-driving member of the East Rivanna Volunteer Fire Company encountered a line of traffic in the opposite direction&#8211;- with the first car stopped.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">"It started a chain-reaction," says County spokesperson Lee Catlin. "A truck couldn't stop in time and went sideways into the lane and broadside; and so in order to miss him, the firetruck swerved into the ditch and rolled."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The firefighter's decision may have totaled a $340,000 vehicle, but at the same time, Catlin suspects, the seatbelt-wearing firefighter may have saved his own life and almost certainly avoided killing the truck driver in his lane.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">It's hard to find supporters of police chases for suspects of property crimes&#8211;- although at least one does exist locally. After the late-night house-scalping incident on residential Rugby Road, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo expressed support for that pursuit.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">“I find the officer’s actions to have been reasonable based on the totality of the circumstance,” Longo wrote. “Had this occurred at 2:30 in the afternoon when traffic conditions were different, I may not have come to the same conclusion.&#8221;<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">At a reporter's request, Augusta's <a href="http://www.co.augusta.va.us/Index.aspx?page=46">Sheriff Fisher</a> provided a copy of his internal <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2-09-vehicle-operation-acso.pdf">policy manual</a>. For misdemeanors, such as vandalism, only "low-risk" pursuits&#8211;- those with low-density cross-streets and speeds no greater than 20mph over the limits&#8211;- are permitted. In riskier situations, the policy is rendered in capital letters: "DISCONTINUE OR DO NOT PURSUE."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Confronted with this Tuesday, March 30, Fisher did not reply by deadline.</p>
http://www.readthehook.com/68152/jot-pursuit-graffiti-chase-may-have-violated-policy#comments_BreakingNewsFeaturedAccidentspolice pursuitrandall fisherTue, 30 Mar 2010 16:45:54 +0000hawes68152 at http://www.readthehook.comNo comment: Sheriff mum after 90mph chase for graffiti suspecthttp://www.readthehook.com/68424/no-comment-sheriff-mum-after-90mph-chase-graffiti-suspect
<p><a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/news-police-car-night.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-29323 alignleft" title="news-police-car-night" src="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/news-police-car-night-140x105.jpg" alt="news-police-car-night" width="140" height="105" /></a>On March 1, an Augusta County sheriff's deputy launched a chase that blew through eight red lights as it traveled through residential and shopping areas and hit speeds reaching 90mph, according to a <a href="http://www2.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/local/crime/article/graffiti_suspect_nabbed_in_high-speed_chase/53069/">story</a> in the <em>News Virginian</em>. The chase resulted in the arrest, according to the story, of 18-year-old <span class="article_font">Sahvannah Nargi, who, along with Christopher Holcomb, allegedly spray-painted graffiti in Staunton. </span>(In a <a href="http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/86273437.html">related story</a> by WHSV television, business owners breathe a sign of relief that two alleged vandals have been nabbed.)<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">And yet none of a <em>Hook</em> reporter's telephone calls placed to Augusta Sheriff Randall Fisher&#8211;- calls placed every day or two since the chase&#8211;- has been returned. A Freedom of Information Act request sent via email has gone unanswered.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">In 1992, a chase by a Waynesboro officer named Joseph A. Thomas resulted, after Thomas ran a red light, in a collision which killed 19-year-old Rachel Zawhorodny. A jury, which was prevented from hearing testimony conjecturing a 67mph alleged speed, ruled in Thomas' favor in a <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&amp;dat=19930401&amp;id=f-QyAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=jQcGAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=4064,138057">civil trial</a>.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">One family endured the horror of losing a father and son in a controversial chase in front of Madison County High School in the early 1990s.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Last year, an <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/driver-missing-after-85mph-car-scalps-house/">85mph chase</a> on Charlottesville's residential Rugby Road nearly killed three people and caused over $100,000 in property damage, but Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo <a href="http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/hot-pursuit-dashcam-video-fuels-rugby-road-chase-debate/">declared it </a>"reasonable based on the totality of the circumstance."<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Then, on March 14 of this year, a short chase that began <span class="article_font">south of the Louisa County town of Mineral, </span>with an initial alleged transgression of traveling<span class="article_font"> 65 mph in a 45-mph zone, led to the death of a male front-seat passenger, 22-year-old James J. Wolf Jr., of Powhatan.<br />
</span><br />
</p><p class="whitespace">Police pursuits rein in many criminals. They also create death and destruction. The key question the Hook wants to ask Sheriff Fisher is whether he considers the grafitti suspect chase an acceptable risk.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace">The reporter has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for any relevant dashcam videos.<br />
</p><p class="whitespace"><em>&#8211;updated 8:06am March 8 with report of 1992 pursuit death<br />
&#8211;updated 3:56pm March 9 with report of Sheriff's unwillingness to respond<br />
&#8211;updated 11:08am March 16 with report of death in Louisa</em></p>
http://www.readthehook.com/68424/no-comment-sheriff-mum-after-90mph-chase-graffiti-suspect#comments_BreakingNewsCrime/Justicecharlottesville police departmentpolice pursuitrandall fisherThu, 04 Mar 2010 15:41:12 +0000hawes68424 at http://www.readthehook.com